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In situations of this type, the candidate knows well that the desirable response is to return the
money to the owner’. I have hardly come across any other response to this situation. In actual life the
contradiction between the words and acts is too frequent. Very few today will actually try to trace out
the owner of the purse and return the money whereas they will say whatever is desirable only.
Even the hardcore drug addict says ‘drugs are bad’. Seasoned liars cry at the top of their voice to
‘always speak truth’. Cowards propound the philosophy of ‘martial race’. The leader of militant groups
prefers to live on a safe foreign land and declares ‘to fight till last breath’. Modern saints preach’ simple
life and association with the nature and God’ living ostentiously in air-conditional ashrams.
With all these contradictions around, why should the psychologist take your response on face
value ?

Lesson 6
Good Is Not Even Good, But Bad Is Very Bad
As the element of desirability plays a dominant role in the Situation Reaction Test, any response
even if good, is not taken in the same intensity. But a bad/negative response specially in the social
situations is taken as ‘very bad/highly negative. The candidate is penalised for his lack of tact or
inhibition to keep his bad/negative feelings under check.
Let the Schoolmaster have it !
The village schoolmaster used to ask for free gifts like vegetable, milk or curd from his students who
generally were children of peasant community. Nobody would mind it once in a while but the master’s greed far
such favours never got satiated. His demands were too frequent to be tolerated. But there was hardly any one
who dared opened his mouth against the ‘scholar’. After all, the children had to pass the elementary school for
further education !
There was a coy silent boy who could hardly be noticed for anything. Unaffected by the frequent demands of
the master, he never brought anything till that eventful day when he got a pail of milk for the ‘Punditji’. Even as
the Pundit was delighted, he could not resist asking the boy what was the reason for this magnanimous gift ?
Nothing Shriman, my younger brother is very devilish. He urinated in the milk pot no sooner did my father
milk the cow ! Who would use such milk at home ? So my father told me to take it for you. After all we could
not oblige you even once !
Moral—Honesty is not the best policy. Now it should be amended as following :—
The best policy is to be honest only where it is desirable !

Lesson 7
Why a Situation is a Situation.
Does it Qualify to Become a Situation ?
A confirmatory Test, not the test of your imagination. What, How, under what conditions and why
a situation is a situation. Does it qualify to become a situation ?
Conduct of the Test—(Instruction of the Scientist) Gentlemen, this is the third test of the battery
of your psychological test this is not the test of your imagination. These routine situations are practical
and drawn from various walks of life therefore the responses should be practical suiting the calibre,
capacity and your guts. Answer these situations by imagining that you are confronting these situations
in reality and how you will deal these situations if they confront you. Not necessary to complete all of
them that is ‘60’. These are designed in such a way that if you do appropriate disposal, your personality
will come within 45, 50 and 55.